Josep M. Comellas

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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - UAB Barcelona Enrique Hernández, Premi Nacional de Recerca per a Joves 2025 29 set. 2025 null Bluesky Compartir a Facebook Compartir per WhatsApp Compartir per e-mail Enrique Hernández Pérez, professor del Departament de Ciència Política i de Dret Públic de la UAB, ha estat distingit pel Ministeri de Ciènc...

🏆 El professor de la #UAB Enrique Hernández, Premi Nacional de Recerca per a Joves 2025

📢 New job alert! @galais.bsky.social & @mguinjoan.bsky.social are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-ForSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes.

⬇️ Here is all the information to apply:

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

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Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right Using survey data from Spain we show that the gender gap in the probability of voting for the radical-right party Vox is mainly due to men having higher levels of modern sexism than women. We find ...

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond anger and fear: the demobilizing role of sadness in far-right voting in Spain This study investigates emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain, offering a case study of far-right support. It addresses prior research’s narrow focus on anger and fear, and its tendenc...

🚨My first published article together with @galais.bsky.social is out:

“Beyond fear and anger: the demobilizing role of sadness in far right voting in Spain”

In this article we address the emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain.

🧵What do we find?

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Jordi Muñoz - Calls PhD fellowship in Political Science at the University of Barcelona

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.

This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat
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Colleagues have backed up the point with data and infographics. The answer is no: political violence in the US is if anything declining, not rising. The far right commits more than the far left, but both are rare, and fewer than 10% of Americans endorse violence for political goals.

‼️Our new paper with magnificent colleagues @alinazumbrunn.bsky.social @antonialang.bsky.social‬ on how place experience shapes place-based (rural/urban) identity is now out at the Journal of Rural Studies!

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EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

🧐 Les actituds contràries a la immigració van a l'alça, però és el moment de més racisme a Catalunya?

No, l'any 2010 també hi era molt present i, de fet, ara les opinions són més positives a les enquestes, encara que el racisme tingui més presència institucional 👇

📢 Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published 🎉

📖 Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! 💙

Link below for the e-book 👇

It has been a pleasure to contribute to the Handbook of Affective Polarization, edited by @marianotorcal.bsky.social and @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social

I co-authored a chapter with @marianotorcal.bsky.social on the operationalization of affective polarization in multiparty systems 👇

It is OUT the last (printed) version of Handbook of Affective Polarization doi.org/10.4337/9781...
It is open Access!!!

Moltes felicitats, Sergi!

Bayrou lanza un plan radical de recortes de 44.000 millones de euros para frenar la deuda francesa En un discurso dramático con menciones a la Grecia rescatada, el primer ministro anuncia que se congelará el Presupuesto y se suprimirán 3.000 empleos públicos

Ho vam dir. Es va negar. Però hi som de ple.

França proposa reduir radicalment la despesa pública en tots els àmbits... menys en la despesa militar!

Va començar Gran Bretanya, continua França i ho farà la resta.

I cal dir-ho: és un despropòsit, irracional i antisocial.
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📢 Publication alert:
Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

Our Element is out! 🎉

Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?

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Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments Recent research shows a growing rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behavior, which has given currency to expressions like “places that don'…

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social

With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments

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This is attemp to understand the dynamics of affective polarization with the emergence of a RRP: A "Longitudinal Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Affective Polarization and Radical Right’s Emergence..." Josep Maria Comellas, Mariano Torcal, 2025
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VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya IBEI, 6th of November 2025 Submission form

🚨 Call for papers

📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop

📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI

📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.

Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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After a long time in the making, so happy to finally see this paper out at @psrm.bsky.social, with Albert Falcó and @robpannico.bsky.social- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Las ideas conspiranoicas ganan terreno: la mitad de los españoles cree que nos ocultan los ‘peligros’ de las vacunas La Encuesta de Percepción Social de la Ciencia y la Tecnología realizada por la FECYT muestra un preocupante aumento de quienes creen en teorías de la conspiración sobre la ciencia, sobre todo en pers...

‼️Las ideas conspiranoicas ganan terreno: la mitad de los españoles cree que nos ocultan los ‘peligros’ de las vacunas

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

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This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵:

First substack with @simonhix.bsky.social — was it a good idea to join labour and citizenship questions in the same referendum? Illustrated with scatterplots and (arguably) aesthetic maps!